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With a joint statement released today by the UK, Germany, France and the US, this situation is hotting up considerably. It's very worrying indeed. More worrying is the callous disregard towards the public with the use of the nerve agent in the first place. This is literally an attack on the UK.

I see Corbyn the sympathiser is at it again.
He's a sympathiser of anything anti - British.
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At the time Corbyn made the statement there had been no word from Russia regarding culpability... That may have changed therefore his stance may have changed, but don't let that stop the pitchfork waving :/
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At the time Corbyn made the statement there had been no word from Russia regarding culpability... That may have changed therefore his stance may have changed, but don't let that stop the pitchfork waving :/
Has it changed?
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Has it changed?
I don't know... I don't know him personally. If he's made a statement you'll know when I do.
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I don't know... I don't know him personally. If he's made a statement you'll know when I do.
Right well, who are you to tell people they are pitchfork waving when you have no bloody idea if his stance has changed..im sure its not or you would have heard by now.
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Right well, who are you to tell people they are pitchfork waving when you have no bloody idea if his stance has changed..im sure its not or you would have heard by now.
As I said I don't know him personally... I wouldn't know before anyone else would I?

We also don't know whether there has been any assurance he is involved yet do we?
Just that may is all of a sudden loving her European neighbours :/
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As I said I don't know him personally... I wouldn't know before anyone else would I?

We also don't know whether there has been any assurance he is involved yet do we?
Just that may is all of a sudden loving her European neighbours :/
She always has loved our nieghbours but she has to do the publics bidding though seeing as we voted out.So you are making a rather bitter sounding and mute point

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She always has loved our nieghbours but she has to do the publics bidding though seeing as we voted out.So you are making a rather bitter sounding and mute point
Am I?... Oh well.
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Well jezza has just come out..


It points to russia.
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Is it better that that was a conclusion that was jumped to?... Not for me.

How unsavory is it that this seemingly has morphed into a corbyn v may popularity contest complete with #imwithmay hashtags :/

I would literally piss my pants laughing if it turns out that it's nothing to do with putin, you can get anything on the dark web it's prob just some nutter.

https://twitter.com/ainemichellel/st...026752/photo/1
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https://mobile.twitter.com/withcorbyn?lang=en


Bit sad you find the whole thing one giant laugh mind.
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Sky news centre nationally representative sample poll of how the public feel May and Corbyn were handling the diplomatic situation with Russia.

Is May doing a good or bad job dealing with Russia.
Good 61%
Bad 29%

Is Corbyn doing a good or bad job dealing with Russia.
Good 18%
Bad 57%

Who would you prefer to deal with Russia.
May 69%
Corbyn 31%
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Sky news centre nationally representative sample poll of how the public feel May and Corbyn were handling the diplomatic situation with Russia.

Is May doing a good or bad job dealing with Russia.
Good 61%
Bad 29%

Is Corbyn doing a good or bad job dealing with Russia.
Good 18%
Bad 57%

Who would you prefer to deal with Russia.
May 69%
Corbyn 31%
That proves my point... this isn't a popularity exercise.....it it?
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https://mobile.twitter.com/withcorbyn?lang=en


Bit sad you find the whole thing one giant laugh mind.
I thought you liked a laugh... Suddenly you are serious parmy, where's funtime parmy gone? I liked him!
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I thought you liked a laugh... Suddenly you are serious parmy, where's funtime parmy gone? I liked him!
Sorry, but i dont find a serious threat to world peace very amusing


Each ti thier own though, just a shame that you lack emphathy.
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It's gross that people are turning this incident into a popularity contest.
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That proves my point... this isn't a popularity exercise.....it it?
What point?
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It's gross that people are turning this incident into a popularity contest.
How is comparing the reactions of the PM and the leader of the Opposition and what the public think of those reactions anything to do with popularity? It is to do with the threat to our - and other - countries and how people want the threat dealt with.
It is important for a PM to know they have the backing of the public in these matters, and this poll shows that she has.
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Sorry, but i dont find a serious threat to world peace very amusing


Each ti thier own though, just a shame that you lack emphathy.
To be fair, it isn't a serious threat. It is an incident that needs responding to, but it's not likely to lead to war. Russia has been interfering for a long time now and need to be called out on it.

I need to remember this answer of yours and quote it back to you when you ridicule something serious. It's only a matter of time and politics, isn't it.
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This situation shouldn't be a pissing contest, either in the polls or on here. Its a fairly serious situation that needs dealing with....not a tit for tat war of words.
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How is comparing the reactions of the PM and the leader of the Opposition and what the public think of those reactions anything to do with popularity? It is to do with the threat to our - and other - countries and how people want the threat dealt with.
It is important for a PM to know they have the backing of the public in these matters, and this poll shows that she has.
Let's be realistic, this is just another issue being turned into a pro-Corbyn/Anti-Corbyn debate.

It's not a partisan issue yet Sky News is trying to turn it into one.

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Jezza takes his bleeding time over some things. I wish he didn't. But I guess he got there in the end.
This is today's Guardian opinion piece by Corbyn

The Salisbury attack was appalling. But we must avoid a drift to conflict
Jeremy Corbyn

Britain needs to hold the perpetrators to account. Yet this is not a time for hasty judgments that could lead to a new cold war

Thu 15 Mar 2018 17.45 GMT Last modified on Thu 15 Mar 2018 18.02 GMT


There can be no one in Britain who is not outraged by the appalling attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury last week. The use of military nerve agents on the streets of Britain is barbaric and beyond reckless. This horrific event demands first of all the most thorough and painstaking criminal investigation, conducted by our police and security services. They have a right to expect full support in their work, just as the public should also be able to expect calm heads and a measured response from their political leaders. To rush way ahead of the evidence being gathered by the police, in a fevered parliamentary atmosphere, serves neither justice nor our national security.

Theresa May was right on Monday to identify two possibilities for the source of the attack in Salisbury, given that the nerve agent used has been identified as of original Russian manufacture. Either this was a crime authored by the Russian state; or that state has allowed these deadly toxins to slip out of the control it has an obligation to exercise. If the latter, a connection to Russian mafia-like groups that have been allowed to gain a toehold in Britain cannot be excluded.

On Wednesday the prime minister ruled out neither option. Which of these ultimately prove to be the case is a matter for police and security professionals to determine. Hopefully the next step will be the arrest of those responsible.

As I said in parliament, the Russian authorities must be held to account on the basis of the evidence, and our response must be both decisive and proportionate. But let us not manufacture a division over Russia where none exists. Labour is of course no supporter of the Putin regime, its conservative authoritarianism, abuse of human rights or political and economic corruption. And we pay tribute to Russia’s many campaigners for social justice and human rights, including for LGBT rights.

However, that does not mean we should resign ourselves to a “new cold war” of escalating arms spending, proxy conflicts across the globe and a McCarthyite intolerance of dissent. Instead, Britain needs to uphold its laws and its values without reservation. And those should be allied to a foreign policy that uses every opportunity to reduce tensions and conflict wherever possible.

I will not step back from demanding that Russian money be excluded from our political system
This government’s diplomacy is failing the country. Unqualified support for Donald Trump and rolling out the red carpet for a Saudi despot not only betrays our values, it makes us less safe.

And our capacity to deal with outrages from Russia is compromised by the tidal wave of ill-gotten cash that Russian oligarchs – both allied with and opposed to the Russian government – have laundered through London over the past two decades. We must stop servicing Russian crony capitalism in Britain, and the corrupt billionaires who use London to protect their wealth.

So I will not step back from demanding that Russian money be excluded from our political system. We will be holding the government’s feet to the fire to fully back Labour’s proposed Magnitsky-style sanctions against human rights abusers, along with a wider crackdown on money laundering and tax avoidance.

We agree with the government’s action in relation to Russian diplomats, but measures to tackle the oligarchs and their loot would have a far greater impact on Russia’s elite than limited tit-for-tat expulsions. We are willing to back further sanctions as and when the investigation into the Salisbury attack produces results.

But if we are to unite our allies behind action that needs taking, we must make full use of existing international treaties and procedures for dealing with chemical weapons. That means working through the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to reduce the threat from these horrific weapons, including if necessary an investigation by chemical weapons inspectors into the distribution of Soviet-era weapons.

There can and should be the basis for a common political response to this crime. But in my years in parliament I have seen clear thinking in an international crisis overwhelmed by emotion and hasty judgments too many times. Flawed intelligence and dodgy dossiers led to the calamity of the Iraq invasion. There was overwhelming bipartisan support for attacking Libya, but it proved to be wrong. A universal repugnance at the 9/11 attacks led to a war on Afghanistan that continues to this day, while terrorism has spread across the globe.

The continuing fallout from the collapse of the Soviet Union and the virtual collapse of the Russian state in the 1990s must be addressed through international law and diplomacy if we are to reverse the drift to conflict.

Right now, the perpetrators of the Salisbury attack must be identified and held to account. Only through firm multilateral action can we ensure such a shocking crime never happens again.

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To be fair, it isn't a serious threat. It is an incident that needs responding to, but it's not likely to lead to war. Russia has been interfering for a long time now and need to be called out on it.

I need to remember this answer of yours and quote it back to you when you ridicule something serious. It's only a matter of time and politics, isn't it.
Have we forgot how the simple assasination of franz ferdinand started the worst war in history...


Its all about posturing, and there are some strong words comming from both sides as we speak..

So sorry, i dont agree eith your glibness today.
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Let's be realistic, this is just another issue being turned into a pro-Corbyn/Anti-Corbyn debate.

It's not a partisan issue yet Sky News is trying to turn it into one.
So you don't think the leader of the Oppositions stance is relevant in all this? That nobody should mention it to either criticise or otherwise?
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Have we forgot how the simple assasination of franz ferdinand started the worst war in history...


Its all about posturing, and there are some strong words comming from both sides as we speak..

So sorry, i dont agree eith your glibness today.
True re. WW1 etc
And there will be some posturing. Let's wait for Russia's response, that should be "interesting". Putin uses this type of stuff mainly for domestic consumption (warning for enemies, cause for nationalists to vote for him, maybe even an election turnout boost). The narrative of Russia as a victim of the West plays very well there.

Since you turned into a statesman, someone else has to be glib
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